[dev] Horde View

[Sebastian Birnbach]

Thanks again Ralph,

your answer makes a lot of sense to me. I shall play a little with the
different approaches you suggested and come back with more questions :)

  Sebastian

2015-01-28 12:03 GMT+01:00 Ralf Lang <lang at b1-systems.de>:

> On 28.01.2015 11:36, Sebastian Birnbach wrote:
> > Big petty that Horde_Rdo_Form is dead.
> > Any ideas where to start looking for doing just what it was supposed to
> do?
> >
> >   Sebastian
> >
> > 2015-01-28 10:06 GMT+01:00 Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
> >
>
> Depends on how much automation you want.
> If you want to omit horde_forms at all, you just generate a Horde_View,
> pass it the Rdo Item as a variable $view->item = $item.
>
> For simple fields, iterate over it
>
> foreach ($this->item as $field) {
>    /* generate a php input with item-specific id and name attributes */
> }
>
> More sophisticated: Iterate over $item->mapper->fields and/or
> $item->mapper->tableDefinition to get the type of column.
>
> But guess what, this is probably all not what you want.
> You probably have a fixed set of Rdo item classes with fixed columns.
>
> You probably want to create forms based on information not available as
> table metadata: Pretty headings, input types that make sense, validation
> etc.
>
> Personally, I try to avoid Horde_Forms where possible and try to use
> "handmade" dialogs instead. This works well enough for the type of apps
> I develop.
>
> But there is no feature-complete alternative to the Forms library.
>
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